Federal Judge Harold Baer has dismissed the Author’s Guild’s copyright infringement lawsuit against five major universities who were working with Google on its massive book digitization program.
The universities, in a joint trust called the HathiTrust Digital Library, led by the University of Michigan, were scanning and posting books for Google.
The Author’s Guild claimed the universities and Google were illegally using copyrighted materials. Baer, however, said the project fell under ”fair use.”

Wow.
It is not just that the Judge ruled in the Universities favour, but that he did so in a motion for summary judgement.
That means he is saying that no properly instructed jury could have possibly found that fair use did not apply.
That seems an extremely strong statement.

Wow.
It is not just that the Judge ruled in the Universities favour, but that he did so in a motion for summary judgement.
That means he is saying that no properly instructed jury could have possibly found that fair use did not apply.
That seems an extremely strong statement.

"We find that it looks an awful lot like copyright infringement!" - Jury